Posted: 7/27/16 at 6:35pm
What else is underneath our feet? http://www.playbill.com/article/times-square-construction-workers-unearth-ruins-of-old-theatre
Posted: 7/27/16 at 7:37pm
You would be surprised. For the longest time, the old Woolworth's on 50 th street had the remnants of the old Earl Carroll theater concealed above its ceiling.
Posted: 7/27/16 at 10:29pm
That's pretty cool! The Criterion in London is also below street level and opened in 1874.
Posted: 7/27/16 at 11:09pm
The 1993 she loves me revival played in those ruins before transferring to the brooks atkinson
Posted: 7/27/16 at 11:19pm
Not necessarily. The ruins are more than likely remnants of Criterion's predecessors
Posted: 7/28/16 at 10:07am
How depressing that it is now going to be a Gap/Old Navy store. We need more of these don't we? Tsk tsk
Posted: 7/28/16 at 10:26am
I love stuff like this!
Posted: 7/28/16 at 11:05am
It's more likely the remains of Hammerstein's Olympia Theatre that stood on that block and had several theatre spaces within it.
Posted: 7/28/16 at 12:59pm
Wow, how interesting... I really love discoveries like this.
Posted: 7/28/16 at 1:02pm
What a shame that no longer exists. I bet it looked gorgeous inside at the time.
Posted: 7/28/16 at 1:06pm
Go to cinema treasures.org
Posted: 7/28/16 at 4:13pm
It's the kind of theatre that has been entirely erased from NYC (or at least Manhattan), in the 19th century style.
Posted: 7/28/16 at 4:21pm
Crazy gorgeous. Wow.
Posted: 7/28/16 at 4:49pm
Manhattan Center used to look something like this.
